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Meet City Hall's local candidates for city manager

"...moved over to development. He remembers trying to reduce traffic fatalities; in 2005 Hurricane Katrina struck, with Garza earning..."

Dec. 21, 2007 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

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"...into the Monarch apartments construction site Downtown temporarily blocked traffic across West Fifth – until Wynn himself went over..."

Nov. 30, 2007 News Feature

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"...city staff failed to review the site plan for traffic and public-safety impacts, Wal-Mart's garden center is a "conditional..."

Nov. 16, 2007 News Feature

Trade

This drama about international sex trafficking is tremendously sincere but also brutal.

"...sincere but at times brutal drama about international sex trafficking faces two hurdles. First, Kreuzpaintner (Summer Storm) must make..."

Sept. 28, 2007 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

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"...to reach for our wallets because we're stuck in traffic. The Texas Transportation Institute issued its biennial "Urban Mobility..."

Sept. 21, 2007 News Feature

Roadway Ban for Reptiles Is Ridiculous

"...consideration is that there has never been a recorded traffic incident involving animal collection. Reptile collectors almost exclusively frequent..."

July 26, 2007 Postmarks

10 Reasons to Love a Streetcar

The 'streetcar effect' – offering Austinites far more than a free ride

"...we now celebrate for being handsome, walkable, mixed-use, and human-scaled. These central-city neighborhoods remain popular because people are drawn..."

July 20, 2007 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

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"...• "We face urban traffic with our naked body on our bikes as the..."

June 8, 2007 News Feature

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"...antideveloper sentiment across town. Folks worried about increased density, traffic, and gentrification have been urging their neighbors to "opt-out"..."

June 1, 2007 News Feature

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"...3 feet when passing cyclists. Cyclists must obey all traffic laws and also use hand signals." – Daniel Mottola..."

May 25, 2007 News Feature

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"...planned Northcross store below a threshold requiring a higher traffic count – but only if neighborhood groups represented by..."

May 18, 2007 News Feature

Letters at 3AM

Freedom is beautiful and dangerous: That has been the theme of American writers since the beginning

"...You! Keep walkin'!'" As long as you're not blocking traffic, the world doesn't concern itself. Which is why there's..."

May 11, 2007 Column by Michael Ventura

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"...Bill 1098 – overturning his executive order to require human papillomavirus vaccinations for all sixth-grade girls – to become..."

May 11, 2007 News Feature

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"...rejected Gov. Perry's proposal to vaccinate sixth-grade girls against human papillomavirus, moved forward on voter-ID bills designed to restrict..."

May 4, 2007 News Feature

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"...planned supercenter at Northcross will generate, according to a traffic-impact study discussed before City Council last week. According to..."

April 13, 2007 News Feature

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"...Entrada al Pacífico trade corridor, a route connecting 18-wheeler traffic from the emerging Mexican Pacific port of Topolobampo (an..."

March 30, 2007 News Feature

AFS Essential Cinema

Spaces Between Realities: The Films of Michael Haneke

"...regenerative, erotic giddiness – than eight suffocating movies that traffic almost exclusively in urban alienation, family trauma, and dispassionate..."

March 30, 2007 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

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Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...order mandating the vaccination of young girls against the human papillomavirus and said they have at least 90 sponsors..."

Feb. 23, 2007 News Feature

Developing Stories

Citizen passion against city-approved site plan for redeveloping Northcross Mall continues to run hot and deep

"...least 2,500 red-clad Austinites to hold hands in a human chain of protest – sufficient, on a cold and..."

Feb. 16, 2007 News Column by Katherine Gregor

Point Austin: Flying Air Kim

The council member, the memos, and the disappearing aide

"...question to a cop when she was given a traffic ticket last September: "Do you know who I am?"..."

Feb. 2, 2007 News Column by Michael King

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Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...trying to punish the neighborhood by not recommending a traffic circle. … Please be assured that no city employee..."

Jan. 26, 2007 News Feature

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"...from the East Riverside/Oltorf Combined Neighborhood Plan protested the traffic-flow issues and possible encroachment threats to local neighborhoods, McCracken..."

Jan. 19, 2007 News Feature

FronteraFest 2007: The lowdown

"...minds of nine people who pass one another in traffic one day...."

Jan. 12, 2007 Arts Feature

Point Austin: Invisible No More

Houston janitors strike a mighty blow for the value and dignity of labor

"...and civil-disobedience actions (my personal favorite being an afternoon human blockade in the middle of upscale Galleria traffic) involving..."

Dec. 1, 2006 News Column by Michael King

Point Austin: Thinking Outside the Box

Stacy Mitchell examines the megaretail culture and the tools required to dismantle it

"...at the expense of local, independent businesses built at human scale with sustainable finances and deep community roots...."

Nov. 24, 2006 News Column by Michael King

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Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...with a generally light agenda but possible fireworks on traffic-light cameras and zoning cases; see "Beside the Point." Of..."

Nov. 3, 2006 News Feature

The Forgotten Storm

One year later, Rita's invisible evacuees still wait in the shadow of Katrina

"...the primary Katrina caseworker for Austin/Travis County Health and Human Services, said her experience has basically boiled down to,..."

Sept. 22, 2006 News Feature by Cheryl Smith

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Headlines and Happenings from Austin and Beyond

"...increasing PAHs in the water and their effects on human health and the environment. The Austin study showed that..."

Sept. 15, 2006 News Feature

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Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...environmental health supervisor for the Austin/Travis County Health and Human Services Department, said he hadn't heard of any. "Most..."

Aug. 25, 2006 News Feature

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...of transportation is less than one-half of 1% of traffic; automotive use is 88% of that equation, so being..."

Aug. 25, 2006 Column

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